Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-07-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS

Atchison claims wholesale trade of
SAC, DOC, 900 year.
! Kingan & Co. are slaughtering 700
hogs a day at Atchison.
Canton has new Presbyterian church
which will seat 600 people
The Wichita ice company is now in
operation. 1t freezes up thirty tons Of
CO every day.
The Marion Register rejoices at the
prospect OF pop mandatory as an
important addition to their manufacture
ing interests.
The rain is said to have washed away
fully two hundred acres of land on the
Missouri side above and opposite Atchi-
ison during the past six weeks.
It is said that upon John Walruf's
release from Jail the Lawrence band
serenaded him, playing the appropriate
selection from Mikado, "Taken from the
County Jail"
The reports of the assessors show 2l3,-
759 horses and 226,6 cattle in Mont
gomery county. The average valuation
of the horses is $29 each and of the
cattle 50 each.
The colored people of Kansas and
Missouri will have grand jubilee in
Ottawa, August 4, to celebrate the
emancipation of slaves and the passage
of the fifteenth amendment.
A COW near MiIlbrook one Gay last
week exhibited symptoms of hydropho-
bia, and in her madness attacked cattle
in the same pasture in most ferocious
manner. She was cornered and shot.
The state of Kansas has more papers
published within it's limits than any
southern state, and double the number
of any southern state except Texas.
They are a reading people in Kansas.
Thomas P. Fenlon, of Leavenworth,
one Of the most prominent lawyers in
Kansas, says that in his opinion there is
nothing in the interstate commerce law
to prevent railroads from issuing passes.
A singular case is reported at Weir
City. The fore part of last week little
girl died, apparently, and was laid out.
In few hours she came to and is again
attending school, seemingly as we'll as
ever.
Articles of incorporation have been
fled with the Secretary of State for the
Boles Medical Institute of Lawrence,
Kas. The purpose of this company is
to manufacture and sell drugs. The
capital stock is $4,000.
According to Professor Snow, of the
state university, somewhere about 5O,-
600, 900 years age all Kansas was under
the ocean. This was at q date beyond
the memory of the oldest inhabitant- =
about the only Kansas date of which this
can be said.
Professor L. E. Sayre, of the state
university, is in Barber county looking
up the loco weed, which carries for it's
scientific name ''astragalus mollissimus."
The Cresset thinks if the stock could only
learn the botanical name they would be
ashamed to eat it.
The Beacon says: One of the strong
est arguments against Wichita in the
hands of her numerous enemies, and
that one employed the most frequently
and with the greatest effect, is that she
has no sewerage, and can have none.
Let the council prove this argument a
sophistry by providing sewerage.
Hoyt Times; Mr.. a. Swickard, two
miles north east of Meriden, lost good
three year old steer, also two year old
heifer by lightning. They were stand
ing with their heads near the wire fence,
when the lightning struck post about
forty rods from them and heavy enough
charge followed the wire to kill them
both.
George Atherton, baggage agent at
the Southern Kansas depot, at Harper,
rose early and billed oat car of stock
for the morning freight. Those with
him saw nothing unusual in his actions,
but when the other employees had gone
to breakfast, he got his revolver and
shot himself five times in the head, one
ball entering the brain.
Abilene Gazette: Recently young
man was cultivating coin on the sub
urbs of Woodoine, driving team of
m lies. At noon he unhitched the team
and attempted to climb on to one of the
mules and ride to the barn. He became
entangled in the harness, and the mule
becoming frightened, dragged him at
full gallop over the rocks and stones,
along the creek bottom, until he was dis
cover ed by afarmer, who at first thought
the mule was still hitched to the cultivs-
tor. He caught the animal and olsen
tangled the mangled form of the man,
who gave faint gasp and expired.
About two weeks ago Frank Walls,
young man seventeen years Of age living
northwest of McOracken, purchased q